Word: ring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the confidence of the Mafia-backed labor groups in the harbors that they ended up as bagmen, carrying payoff money back to the mob. Last week there was no mention of the actors when 400 subpoenas were served for two federal grand jury investigations of an extortion ring that has preyed on at least a dozen shipping companies in New York City and other Atlantic and Gulf ports. TIME has learned that the trusted men who worked so closely with the Mafia and its allies in the International Longshoremen's Association were in reality FBI agents...
...remarkable undercover operation began in 1976, when officials of an East Coast shipping firm told the agency about making payoffs to the I.L.A. to get cargoes loaded more quickly. The extortion ring reportedly collected between $3 million and $5 million on a yearly basis. In December a federal grand jury in New York indicted Fred R. Field Jr., a top official of the I.L.A., for allegedly shaking down the United Brands Co. for nearly...
...Black has the advantage of her foreign experience. "In diplomatic circles." says she, "there is a lot of hand kissing." Men are gingerly with her hand, however, since she bought an Iranian ring with two stone-encrusted tigers on it. "I remember a reception in Bucharest in 1972," she relates, "when a Rumanian with a huge red beard bent over to kiss my hand. He was bent over for the longest time and when he finally made it up, there were two long red hairs in my tiger ring...
...writers, artists and scholars who were asked to name the 20th century authors or books they consider the most overrated-or underrated. Arnold Toynbee and E.M. Forster, it seems, have the most inflated reputations. In addition to Forster, Anthony Burgess cited Andre Gide and Hermann Hesse. J.K. Galbraith called Ring Lardner underrated, while Vladimir Nabokov found H.G. Wells' The Passionate Friends the century's most "unjustly ignored masterpiece," though he had not read it for 60 years. Bob Dylan named only one book, which was, he said, both underrated and overrated. His selection: the Bible...
Title Dreams. Middleweight Mike Colbert, ranked first in his division by Ring magazine (all of the contenders were ranked among America's best in their class by Ring), hammered for eight full rounds against Jackie Smith but was unable to put him away. Smith was singled out for attention because he has a college degree and hails from Rocky Marciano's home town of Brockton, Mass. Neither distinction gave him any advantage over the stylish and strong Colbert; still, he won the crowd's ovation and the admiration of his opponent. Heavyweight Larry Holmes, the card...